ave to set share prop to see on netwk

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Jim

I have a 10bT network (Wintel DSL modem, Linksys 4 port
router) with a 98 and a 2000 Pro (not server) machine. I
login to the Win98 machine with a login that matches one
setup as a user on the 2000 machine. I can access the 2000
machine, but I found that I must set the folders property
to "shared." Then I can access only the shared folders
from the 98 machine.

I don't see why I need to share the folders on the 2000
machine. Isn't that the responsibility of the user
profile? It would seem to me that as long as the account
was valid, it wouldn't matter if you logged locally on the
console or accessed through the network. The permissions
control which directories can be accessed. If so, why do I
have to setup the share property?

I can see the need to set the folders to "shared" on the
98 machine as it does not support the concept of
administered groups and users.

Note, there is a delay when accessing the 98 folders from
2000, but that is covered in Knowledge Base Article 245800.

Regards,

Jim
 
I'm afraid folders do have to be shared. However, there
are some default shares including the one for a logical
disk partition/drive/cdrom , eg c$ d$ etc which are
obviously the c and d drives.

Therefore from the run command you can go:

\\pcname\c$

Adam
 
Why doesn't the login name and permissions allow access by
default? It would seem that is what that concept is
supposed to control. Is this a limitation when connecting
from a 98 machine or would a 2000 Pro to 2000 Pro
connection have the same limitation?

Thanks,
Jim
 
You are allowed access it's just that to get to somewhere
on a remote pc it has to be through a shared folder - it's
just a windows convention. Anyway if you use the c$ etc I
told you about you can effectively get everywher without
having to set up anymore shares. However setting up shares
to commonly used folders is useful as you can get to them
more quickly. You can then also map a network drive on
your 98 pc to any share; eg you could have p: mapped to
\\win2kpc\share. Then you just type p: or get to it
through windows explorer.

Adam
 
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